قرقف

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Arabic[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Borrowed from Aramaic קַרְקְפַא (qarqəp̄ā) / קַרְקַפְתָּא (qarqap̄tā) / ܩܲܪܩܲܦܼܬܼܵܐ (qarqap̄ṯā, skull).

Noun[edit]

قَرْقَف (qarqafm

  1. a wine bowl
    • a. 625, الأعشى [al-ʾaʿšā], quoting المرقش الأصغر, edited by Geyer, Rudolf, Zwei Gedichte von Al-ʾAʿšâ (Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 149/6)‎[1], volume Mâ Bukâʾu, Wien: In Kommission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, published 1905, page 65:
      كـَأَنَّ فَاهَا (var. فِيهَا) عـُقَارًا قَرْقَفًا (var. عـُقَارٌ قَرْقَفٌ) نُشَّ (var. سُنَّ) مِنَ الدَنِّ فَالْكَأْس رَذُوم
      kaʔanna fāhā (var. fīhā) ʕuqāran qarqafan (var. ʕuqārun qarqafun) nušša (var. sunna) mina d-danni fa-l-kaʔs raḏūm
      As if her mouth were a gassing hooch … poured from the jug so the stoop was about to overflow
    • c. 800, إبراهيم بن المهدي, فما مزه قهوة قرقف شمولا تروق براووقها:
      فما مزه قهوة قرقف شمولا تروق براووقها
      What he slurps of wine from a bowl, it wholly gets strained by its sifter.
Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Onomatopoeic reduplicated, compare قَفْقَفَ (qafqafa).

Verb[edit]

قَرْقَفَ (qarqafa) Iq, non-past يُقَرْقِفُ‎ (yuqarqifu)

  1. to make shiver, to make tremble
Conjugation[edit]

References[edit]

  • qrqp”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 164
  • Freytag, Georg (1835) “قرقف”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 432